explorator 7.18

[David Meadows]

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explorator 7.18 August 29, 2004
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Did Neanderthals make it to northern Europe?:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/57qu (Telegraph)

I'm not sure about this one ... a brief item in Corriere della
Sera (in Italian) reports that some French archaeologists may
have found the place in the Pyramid of Cheops wherein the body
of the pharaoh was placed:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/p25u

Interesting idea re: testing West's theory about the age of the
Sphinx:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/

A seventh century B.C./B.C.E. dome pharoanic tomb was found
this week:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/6taj (News 24)
http://tinyurl.co.uk/ax7x (IOL)

The ancient Elamite capital of Susa has apparently become a
garbage dump:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1210.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/j4sl (Tehran Times)

Archaeologists are seeking a legendary Sassanid site:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/ukru

Major finds at the Tel Bareket dig:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=67980
http://tinyurl.co.uk/hghs (Jerusalem Post)

Newsweek has a 'biblical archaeology' piece:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5784653/site/newsweek

An ancient grotto with some Byzantine pot sherds has been found
in Lebanon:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/e402

Plenty of coverage (all in Italian) of the discovery of a huge
Phoenician burial site in Sardinia:

http://www.sardegnaoggi.it/notizie.php?notizia=3952
http://tinyurl.co.uk/8j0g

I think we mentioned this one before, possibly in Italian, but
a number of ancient ships have been found of the coast of
Capri:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/m0r1 (AP via Yahoo)

Goth burial site in Italy (repeat?):

http://tinyurl.co.uk/wvux (in Italian)

A third century Roman mosaic came to light in St. Alban's this
week:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/zd6k

An ornamental fountain was found at Sagalassos:

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=25100

cf. Archaeology's 'online dig':

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/sagalassos/

A massive burial site full of headless bodies found in Australia
is causing excitement:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/gigz (AP via Yahoo)

An 8000 b.p. burial was found in Malaysia this week:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/4bc2 (Star)

They're still looking for the 'sleeping Buddha' of Bamayan:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/2tgw (Yahoo)

Remains of a woman (and a brooch) dating from the 10th century
have been found in/near Dublin:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/x771

I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this one before, but a
while back a very nice Anglo Saxon pendant was found in
Leicestershire:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART23671.html

... and a three-year-old found some Iron Age pottery in
Staffordshire:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/3x1c
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THE AMERICAS
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Recent excavations are casting doubt on long-held beliefs about
the origins of the people of Nicaragua:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/jrp2 (Globe and Mail)

Reevaluating finds from a Diablo Canyon Chumash site:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/9490845.htm

Cantonment Wilkinson is being excavated in Illinois:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5829381/
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/9497995.htm
Digging in the Hudson River:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5790817/
http://tinyurl.co.uk/5va2 (AP via Yahoo)

Mayan Mysteries (with a very nice photo of Tikal):

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Maya/

Remains of the Victory have been found in Arctic ice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3593712.stm

Interesting item on ancient North American textiles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040823093054.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The 'Chandelier Debate' continues to rage in the art world
(very interesting):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/arts/design/26hock.html

High tech restoration of Renaissance art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3598936.stm

They're trying to figure out what George Washington really
looked like:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5799030/
http://tinyurl.co.uk/jw8e (Reuters via Yahoo)

... while Genghis Khan might have been able to read and
write:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1289618,00.html

Zahi Hawass in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/he3.htm

A ninth century ring found by a metal detectorist has been
declared treasure trove:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3606188.stm

... as have some 14th century brooches:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/pq0x

A viking arm ring has been handed over for study:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/8lgn (BBC)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3410920
http://tinyurl.co.uk/thob

A touristy thing on Crete:

http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/story/5467525p-5405589c.html

The pope returned an 18th century icon to Russia this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3605996.stm

The Qumran/Essene debate continues:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5842298/site/newsweek/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/468482.html
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040827-110032-6040r.htm

... as does the Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/9514195.htm
http://tinyurl.co.uk/riub (Tribune)
http://tinyurl.co.uk/nc29 (USA Today)

... cf. the best 'marbles must stay' piece I've seen to
date:

http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA6A1.htm

... and the Guardian's roundup of past articles on the
subject:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/parthenon/0,12119,184528,00.html

Interesting piece on the production of illuminated
manuscripts:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/467160.html

Classicists have been discussing the planned elimination of
assorted AQA Classics exams in the UK (see below) ... there are
similar concerns being raised by archaeology types:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/vprq (Guardian)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1223068,00.html

Look who's contributing to Sarmast's expedition to find
Atlantis:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=15734&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=15713&cat_id=1
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OLYMPICS STUFF
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Book reviews:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0824/p15s02-bogn.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/vw59 (KC Star)

Mascots:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/wi31 (SF Chronicle)

Tony Perrottet wrote a feature for the Boston Globe:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/76yf

Those wreaths may not have been such a good idea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/25/sports/olympics/25olive.html

On the origins of some Olympic symbols:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040816/hitler.html
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ON THE WEB
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Margreet Steiner, "Jerusalem in the 10th/9th Centuries B.C.":

http://tinyurl.co.uk/6jp7 (Bible and Interpretation)

Joseph Patrick, "Herod's Theatre in Jerusalem: A Wooden
Structure"

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Patrich-Herods_Theater.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Charles Johnson, *The History of the Pyrates*:

http://www.lib.ecu.edu/ncc/historyfiction/document/joi/
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CRIME BEAT
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'The Scream' (one version of it, anyway) was stolen this week:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/oxh7 (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/opinion/24tue4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/opinion/24dolnick.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Norway-Museum-Theft.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/international/europe/23scream.html
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/9511512.htm

The theft of 'The Scream' spawned an interesting article in
the New York Times on how stolen artworks are recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/arts/design/26thef.html

... and museum security in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/arts/design/24muse.html

... and a retrospective of big art thefts over the past
century:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/xlnu (Australian)

A stolen Egyptian artifact has been returned (I think this is
a repeat):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5841969/

Theft/scandal in the French National Library's Hebrew language
archives:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/467928.html

A pair of Lebanese antiquities dealers are being prosecuted in
Egypt and the U.S.:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11743

Mentioned in passing ... followers of Muqtada Sadr were
arrested with items looted from the mosque they had been holed
up in (scroll way down in the article):

http://tinyurl.co.uk/0mli (LA Times)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Arthur Phillips, *The Egyptologist* (fiction)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/books/24kaku.html

Rhys Isaac, *Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and
Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0817/p15s02-bogn.html?s=hns

Oded Lipschits, *Jerusalem between Destruction and Restoration:
Judah under Babylonian Rule*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/470027.html

Simon Goldhill, *The Temple of Jerusalem*:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/8474 (FT)
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PERFORMANCES
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Comedy of Errors:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/xyd7 (NYT)

A couple of Shakespeare performances trying for 'accuracy':

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/arts/23note.html

Assorted Antigones:

http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA69F.htm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of
Emperor Qianlong:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/arts/design/24chic.html

Why Are We The Way We Are (Mayan):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/arts/design/23maya.html

Petra: Lost City of Stone:

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/08/27/petra082704.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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On Cicero and Old Age (interesting headline):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1052-1228223,00.html

AQA Classics exams appear doomed in the UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1231409,00.html

Rick Lafleur's edition of Wheelock got wire service attention
this week:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5798420/
http://tinyurl.co.uk/39c9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4947941.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9474709.htm

William Race on Pindar in Athens News:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/rn9l

A 'naumaquia' in Beirut:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/gi4e (Daily Star)

Tom Palaima was on NPR this week:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3870177

BBC Radio 4 yesterday had a production of the Odyssey ...
here's a preview:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/wh9u (Telegraph)

... and you can listen here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/the_odyssey.shtml

Roman law and its spinoffs (potential essay crib):

http://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4351

The Alexander Desktop might be of interest (not yet online,
but some nice wallpaper now available):

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Aug/1068639.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/bjc3

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Jolly Monks:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/rm9p

Marathon Dating:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4950642.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/c0md
http://tinyurl.co.uk/gisk (SMH)

Ireland is Atlantis:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/kuny
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):
http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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